For those that enjoy the music from the Legend of Zelda games you should check out Zelda Reorchestrated, a group dedicated to reproducing the music from the Zelda games. They have hundreds of tracks already recorded and are working on more. The best part? They're available for free on their website (but be sure do donate if you'd like to support them). We currently have four Zelda albums here at SST, and I'm not advocating that we replace them, but this would allow us to include almost the complete series at no cost.

Luther_III
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Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:31 am Post subject:

Interesting find, J2. I'm not necessarily a fan of Zelda, so I'm kind of indifferent, to be honest. If the music was all done by a live orchestra, it would be one thing, but these are basically somewhat better virtual instrument performances than the original midi recordings. I would be in favor of retaining the best quality tracks for the Zelda series, whichever the source.

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j2brown
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Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject:

Did you listen to the more recent stuff? The quality gets better and as they have more resources they incorporated live performances. You can see clips from the chorus for their upcoming release on their homepage: